Adeus and Obrigada/o Portugal!

27th March, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Adeus and Obrigada/o Portugal!

Thank you to Dave, Pinar, Karen, Liz, Nick, Suzanne and Emily for the blog post below about Active Inquiry’s trip to Lisbon! The Active Inquiry company has had an amazing weekend in Lisbon meeting some of the international Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) community. We’ve learnt some new games that we look forward to sharing when […] Read More

Divided We Fall? – Forming Groups

15th March, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - 1 Comment

As we begin to reach the half-way point in our process this week was bout reflecting on what we had done so far and using this to form groups to begin to devise some pieces of Forum Theatre. After a quick round of “Eastenders Clap” we began to make rhythms in groups of our experiences of […] Read More

Divided We Fall? – Images of Oppression

11th March, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Divided We Fall? – Images of Oppression

Thank you to Pinar for writing the blog post for this week’s session below: A great start to this week’s session with ‘The Sun Shines On’ and ‘Threesome Image’ games. Introduction to Integration and Diversity went smoothly as we started doing the Agree/Disagree statements in a straight line to see what each individual thinks about […] Read More

Divided We Fall? – Daily Rituals and Defining Oppression

1st March, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - 1 Comment

Another great week which started with it being light outside when we started – summer is on it’s way! In a very hot Thomas Morton Hall we managed to race through a number of practical exercises.   After some rhythmical warm-ups which were fun and confusing in equal measure we moved onto developing rhythms of […] Read More